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Discover the rich history and vibrant culture of Serbia through this bilingual, fully-glossed reader in modern Serbian. Take a captivating language-learning journey with this comprehensive volume,...

Discover the rich history and vibrant culture of Sicily through this bilingual, fully-glossed reader in modern Sicilian. Take a captivating language-learning journey with this comprehensive volume,...

Singoalla is a romantic story out of the Middle Ages, permeated with a poetic nature-mysticism, about the tragic love between a knight and a gypsy girl. It was written in 1858 by Viktor Rydberg, who...

The Street of Crocodiles is a 1934 collection of short stories written by Bruno Schulz. The collection tells the story of a merchant family from a small Galician town which resembles the writer's...

Discover the rich history and vibrant culture of Slovakia through this bilingual, fully-glossed reader in modern Slovak. Take a captivating language-learning journey with this comprehensive volume,...

Stolen Happiness is a play by Ivan Franko. It is widely considered his dramatic masterpiece.Author: Ivan FrankoPublisher: Jiahu BooksPublication Date: Aug 22, 2014Number of Pages: 92 pagesBinding:...

Daniil Kharms was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. He came to be known for his children's literature. Kharms' stories are typically brief vignettes often only...

Suze sina razmetnoga is a poem written by the Croatian Baroque poet Ivan Gundulic. It was originally published in Venice in 1622. The poem is composed of three laments (plac): the Sin (Sagrijesenje),...

Swedish Reader: Rosetta Series - 9781784353124Author: VariousPublisher: Jiahu BooksPublication Date: Aug 05, 2023Number of Pages: 225 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Synn ve Solbakken er en bondefortelling av Bj rnstjerne Bj rnson, utgitt i 1857. Den regnes som hans debut.Boka handler om Torbj rns kamp for ? f? Synn ve Solbakken, hans reise fra skyggesiden til...

Syzyfowe prace is a novel by Polish author Stefan Zeromski which first appeared in the magazine Nowa Reforma in 1897. The novel is based on the author's personal experiences as a child and adolescent...

Szigeti veszedelem recounts in epic fashion the Battle of Szigetv?r, in which a vastly outnumbered Croatian-Hungarian army tried to resist a Turkish invasion. The battle concluded when Captain...

Margit Kaffka was a Hungarian writer and poet. Called a "great, great writer" by Endre Ady, she was one of the most important female Hungarian authors, and an important member of the Nyugat...

Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack. Taras Bulba, and his two sons. Andriy and Ostap. Taras' sons studied at the Kiev...

Terra baixa is a Catalan-language play written by ?ngel Guimer? in 1896. The drama is considered his most popular work, having become an international sensation after its premiere.In addition to...

This volume contains the original Chinese text of two of the most important ancient military treatises. The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking...

Ibn Khaldun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was an Arab Muslim historiographer and historian, regarded to be among the founding fathers of modern historiography, sociology and...

The Captain's Daughter is a historical novel by Alexander Pushkin. It was first published in 1836 in the fourth issue of the literary journal Sovremennik. The novel is a romanticized account of...

The Cathedral Clergy is a novel by Nikolai Leskov, a series of "romantic chronicles" (as the author called them) of the imaginary town of Stargorod. Priest Savely Tuberozov, a spiritual leader of a...

Chunqiu Zuo Zhuan, the Chronicle of Zuo, is among the earliest Chinese works of narrative history, covering the period from 722 to 468 BC. It is one of the most important sources for understanding...

Dionysios Solomos (1798 - 1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos. He is best know for writing the Hymn to Liberty, of whihc the first two stanzas, set to music by Nikolaos Mantazaros, became the Greek...

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (61 - ca. 112), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.He wrote hundreds of letters, many of which still survive,...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The...

The Diary of Lady Murasaki records the daily life of the Heian era lady-in-waiting and writer, Murasaki Shikibu, author of The Tale of Genji. Most likely written between 1008 and 1010, the largest...

The Double centers on a government clerk who goes mad. It deals with the internal psychological struggle of its main character, Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, who repeatedly encounters someone who is his...

"The Duel" is a novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1891. The story primarily focuses on Ivan Andreich Laevsky and Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, lovers who have moved to the Caucasus. Nadezhda is...

The protagonist, Ivan Flyagin, a bogatyr-type of a character has been "promised to God" by his mother but refused to join the monastery as a young man, ignoring all the "signs," allegedly pointing...

The Iliad (Ancient Greek)Author: Homer, Tony J. RichardsonPublisher: JiaHu BooksPublication Date: Aug 02, 2013Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: GreekBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1909669229ISBN-13:...

Guan Hanqing (c. 1241-1320), also known under the sobriquet "the Oldman of the Studio," was a notable Chinese playwright and poet in the Yuan Dynasty. He has been described as among the most prolific...

The Kingdom of God Is Within You is a non-fiction book written by Leo Tolstoy. A philosophical treatise, the book was first published in Germany in 1894 after being banned in his home country of...